John C. Goodpasture, PMP
Project Manager, System Engineer, Operations Analyst, Author, Consultant & Trainer

John Goodpasture is a certified Project Management Professional with broad practical experience in executive management, project management, system engineering, and operations analysis. As founder and chief consultant at Square Peg Consulting, he employs his past accomplishments in management and engineering in the customized application and delivery of project management, business process analysis and characterization, and training of project practitioners.

Past assignments include Vice President of a document archive and imaging operations group at a Fortune-500 company, Director of a strategic Project Office, and Director of a system engineering program office with responsibility for a multi-million dollar software systems product line at a major corporation, and program manager for information processing systems in an agency of the Department of Defense.

John has conceptualized and reduced to practice unique techniques in his field, many of which are described in numerous papers he has published on the subject of project management, and in his 2001 book: “Managing Projects for Value” and his 2003 book: "Quantitative Methods in Project Management.". Adept at personal communication and simplification of complex ideas, he has developed and delivered project training to numerous project and functional teams working in many different countries in the fields of information management, manufacturing, production operations, and software development.

--Project Management & System Engineering
· Established and led Strategic Project Office, responsible for project staff of 65 functional and information system professionals implementing $multi-million in enterprise projects in sales automation, back-office administration, and Internet commerce.
· Developed and led system engineering and program office teams in technology systems development in both federal government and private sector organizations

--Operations Management & Analysis
· Applied operations skills as a Vice President in a document indexing, imaging, storage, and retrieval business; responsible for an 800 person staff in: Operations, R&D, and I.T.
· Applied Rummler-Brache process evaluation techniques and quantitative methods to evaluate and synthesize improved processes in many different business units

--Consultant & Training
· Developed and taught workshops in “Project Management”, “Project Start-up”, “Risk Management”, “Voice of the Customer”, “Kano Analysis”, Capturing Customer Requirements, and project “Peer Reviews”. Co-developed unique technique for earned value measurement in time-constrained projects.
· Consulted with project teams in manufacturing, distribution, information technology, new product development, back-office administration, and sales automation.
· Provided workshops and project consultation to functional teams in Malaysia, Belgium, Puerto Rico, and Canada

--Author & Lecturer:
· Authored nearly a dozen papers in the field of project management.
· Authored book “Managing Projects for Value”, Management Concepts, Vienna, Va. 2001, and "Quantitative Methods in Project Management", J Ross Publishing, Boca Raton, FL 2003